O. C. Smith
September, 1969
It's been a long time coming, but Ocie Lee Smith—an artist of restraint in an age of abandon and a jazz-based vocalist in a time when jazz is supposedly fading out of earshot—has emerged without question, at 33, as one of the world's premier pop singers. Since his reflective recording of the country-and-western ballad Little Green Apples defied Newton's law and sped to the top of the charts a year ago—earning him two Grammy nominations and a hefty pile of green—Smith's singles and LPs have been...
